Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/07/2003 09:05 AM PST

DVD player: Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Bloodlust," starring Robert Reed.

VCR: Matinee at the Bijou.

CD player: Nothing of note.

Something just happened that really steamed my clams. Wouldn't Sandra be proud.

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 09:05 AM PST

Ve-e-e-e-e-e-e-ery mature, WFO.

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 09:05 AM PST

Actually, mathematics professors never say, "nay nya nya". I just, uh,...

Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/07/2003 09:06 AM PST

8-)>

love ya, lulu

Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/07/2003 09:07 AM PST

In my CD player: Melissa Errico "Blue Like That"

Lauren Kennedy: "The Songs of Jason Robert Brown"

EVITA: Premiere American Cast Recording

Posted by Jason @ 03/07/2003 09:09 AM PST

We ARE the Jetsons. You would have thought that cache and cookies would mean two such different things than they did when we were growing up?

THE BENNY GOODMAN story....and Donna Reed wasted as well. Certainly Steve Allen was not an actor. Although he certainly was a shining beacon in COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL compared to Mr Conway Twitty paired with Miss Mamie Van Doren as a co-ed! Actually I think at her age in 1959 she should have been doing graduate work.

But Steve Allen on his TV show could always make me laugh. The man on the street with Don Knotts and Louis Nye (Heigh Ho Steverino, Gordon Hathaway here) still makes me weak.

In my CD player, the National Theatre cast album for South Pacific. In the DVD player, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. In the VHS BY LOVE POSSESSED with Miss Lana Turner. On the turntable THE FIVE PENNIES featuring dear reader Susan Gordon.

Bill Orr...did you get your video tape?

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 09:11 AM PST

Lulu - BLOODLUST features the last performance onscreen of Miss June Kenney (star of Attack of the Puppet People) who has since vanished! She even has residuals coming from SAG who can't find her!

Wednesday afternoon on TCM, the 1929 Ruth Chatterton version of MADAME X...and boy was it bad! Such "acting" as has never been seen!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 09:13 AM PST

VHS - I finally watched KISS ME BRENT last night. Although it suffered from the MTV/Chicago style of editing and there were a lot of reaction shots when they should have shown the person singing/dancing/acting, it was a good production. I liked Brent and Rachel a lot, but the show was stolen by Nancy Anderson as Lois (and didn't the Spewacks know about that other Lois Lane who had been around over ten years before they named this character). This was both a slightly different approach to Lois than the Standard Lisa Kirk/Julie Wilson one (let's forget Annie Miller) and also a complete change of pace for Ms. Anderson. I did not care for Michael Berrase and after all I had read about his gymnastics was a little disappointed. I felt basically the same about the production when I saw it with the replacement cast on Broadway: "Too Darn Hot" was too darn long and Kathleen Marshall's other choreography worked better in the smaller numbers. The Tony winning costumes for the "Shrew" scenes were great but the backstage costumes were boring. The total change in character of Harrison complete with Truman and Nixon jokes was wrong as was the addition of "From This Moment On" (a song that did work in the movie in a different context). It's nice to see how far Brent has come since his days as a psycho model on ALL MY CHILDREN and I hope originating a role on Broadway will be the next step up.

DVD - Still watching M*A*S*H episodes

CD - The Rhino Handmade "Best Foot Forward" and "Good News" Soundtracks. George Feltenstein is the 2nd Best CD Producer working today.

By the way, I'm still working my way through the new website (why is it called "Unofficial" when it has BK's approval?). The biggest surprise was seeing Vinnie who looks nothing at all like I pictured.

Posted by William E Lurie @ 03/07/2003 09:17 AM PST

WFO: :)

Jrand: Ya don't say? Which one was June? The bad guy's wife or the blonde girl or the brunette girl (as you can tell, the film is NOT character-driven)? We like to make fun of the way Robert Reed strains to pull his tummy in throughout the movie (he's wearing a tight T-shirt, and seems in pretty good shape, but apparently not quite good enough for him to feel comfortable in that shirt!). I always remember Bloodlust when I read something about how utterly humiliated Reed was to appear in The Brady Bunch when after all, he was a classically trained Shakespearean actor. As Jackie Cooper would say to Maryann Jackson, "Awwww, applesauce!"

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 09:35 AM PST

Oh dear, jrand--yes I did.

When I came home yesterday, Joe was snowblowing the driveway and his left hand was frozen.

I didn't notice till I left for work this morning that he had taken the mail in and left it in the garage--and your videotape was there.

Thanks a bunch.

Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/07/2003 09:40 AM PST

Well, I must say I had a ball watching Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa doing "You're Timeless to Me" on the Today show. A wonderful number and peerless performers.

Now on to business:

CD player: Barry Manilow's Here at the Mayflower and Judy Holliday's Holliday with Mulligan, which only suffers from being two short.

DVD player: I have finally finished the first two seasons of Ab Fab and now am beginning seasons three and four. The sight gag involving Patsy in Edina's burnt kitchen still is the ranks right up there with some of Lucy's best.

Posted by Philip Crosby @ 03/07/2003 10:27 AM PST

Lulu - June is the blonde girl, not the wife the other one.

We sound like Stacey & Nickey in The Long Long Trailer talking about a movie while driving a mobile home full of rocks up the mountain...

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 10:44 AM PST

Which reminds me....remember when drive-ins used to do weird combinations of movies?

One of my favorites was a triple feature of
ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN
THE LONG LONG TRAILER
and
FORBIDDEN PLANET

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 10:45 AM PST

Jrand52 --

That reminds me of a contest I saw in New York Magazine years ago ... pair two films in a double-feature that makes a commentary on one or both. The one that stuck in my mind (and is most appropriate to this list) was a double-bill of

ONE SINGS, THE OTHER ONE DOESN'T
MAME

Posted by Philip Crosby @ 03/07/2003 10:52 AM PST

In VCR: The Talk of the Town with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman. What a great script (Irwin Shaw was one of the writers). A perfect mix of drama and comedy. So hard to do well. And, of course, the great acting talent of the leads. How unique was Jean Arthur. Long after her career ended, I read an article about her. She lived in Monterey, California, in a beautiful serene house designed in the Japanese style.

After the movie ended, I wondered who could play these roles today. I came up with Matthew Perry or Bruce Willis in the Cary Grant role. Jennifer Aniston or Gwyneth Paltrow in the Jean Arthur role. In the Ronald Colman part, maybe Sean Connery or Anthony Hopkins (although they may be too mature).

Up next: Dancing at Lughnasa.

Posted by Donna -Cabaret West @ 03/07/2003 10:56 AM PST

LOL Philip...though earthbound man judge you ill-fated...Lucy is so funny as the Moon Lady!

Let me know what you think of the tape WFO...hope Joe's hand is okay.

Donna - I guess TALK OF THE TOWN is a movie I have never understood, maybe I should watch it again. I loved Jean Arthur in a movie called THEODORA GOES WILD...LOL...and what was that movie when she got hit with a mink coat that some rich guy threw out the window???

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 11:10 AM PST

Don't get me started on Double Features. The first two here are real, the third might not be.

Singin' In the Rain
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Red Shoes
Silk Stockings

The King Steps Out
The Princess Comes Across

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/07/2003 11:12 AM PST

When it comes to DVDs, der Brucer has a knack for getting himself in trouble. It's bad enough having to keep an eye on what he's doing, because he's as likely to pick up a full-screen edition (imitate cat spitting up hairball) as the good widescreen editions (imitate dog getting belly rubbed). Now he's getting television series on DVD.

Sorry, not M*A*S*H. But we've got the first three seasons of Buffy, and most of Star Trek TNG (but missing seasons 4 and 7). Now he's started collecting Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which should keep our collection growing over the year.

Of the Trek series, DS9 is perhaps the most layered, with a goodly number of secondary characters running around, occasionally getting their own episodes along with storylines. It's interesting watching the first story, the two-hour "Emissary," and catching first appearances of minor characters who would figure through the rest of the series. Also, the storytelling is so much better than it was at the start of TNG.

The biggest problem is, he keeps blaming ME for these additions to our collection. He's already blaming me because we don't yet have "Tales of the City" and "Further Tales of the City", as if I'm forcing him to get them. Maybe I should complain more, telling him we don't really need these DVDs.

No, on second thought, I'm quite happy with how things are going. *happy sigh*

Posted by S. Woody White @ 03/07/2003 11:13 AM PST

Not quite a double feature, but I recall that when our church in Tulsa was under construction and I was a wee twig of a sprig of a lad, we were holding services at a local movie theatre.

The marquee read

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH MEETING HERE
ENTER
THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY

Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/07/2003 11:20 AM PST

WFO: LOL!

SWW: I loved Tales of the City, and have thought about picking up the DVD box set, myself. Tried to watch Further Tales, but just could not get past the fact that they were ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE, DAMMIT (yes, yes, I know...except for Olympia Dukakis). Sorry, I just felt like the people on Barbary Lane became a bit too real to simply replace them with other actors and expect me to accept it.

Jrand: I haven't seen The Long, Long, Trailer for a long time, but remember really enjoying it - and I'm really not a Lucy fan. I don't hate her, but just never have seen what the big deal is.

When I was a kid and we went to the drive-in, it was the days when drive-ins only showed one of two types of movies: raunchy sleazefests with lots of gore and nudity, and Disney films. Never saw any of these two genres actually combined on a double bill (pity), but the multi-screeners would frequently have, say, Friday the 13th 1 and 2 playing just a few hundred feet away from Swiss Family Robinson and The Love Bug.

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 11:43 AM PST

LOL...

Church Bowling Night Thursday at the BIG M Bowl
Come and bring the wife and girlfriend.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 11:45 AM PST

I have "Contempt" for viewing on DVD later this weekend, along with my newly acquired copy of "Rosemary's Baby."

On my DVD player right now, though, is the Australian Opera production of "La Boheme."

I'm addicted to it. Somebody get me some ant-Puccini medication...QUICK!

On my CD carousel -- 34 or 35 CDs...most recently added were "Good News" and "Best Foot Forward." One of my favorite listens, though, is the Varese Sarabande Club release of Alex North's "The Racers" -- superb, absolutely amazing score! And I'm fond of the three ballet movements North wrote for "Daddy Long Legs" that are the final three tracks of the CD.

And then there's the fabulousness of the CD soundtrack to "There's No Business Like Show Business" -- our friend Nick Redman did himself proud on that release (if I am not improperly attributing it to him). The Fox sound NEVER sounded better on other recordings -- it's PHENOMENAL!

If there's anyone out there who loves baiting far-right extremist hawks, drop me a line...have I got a discussion group for you to sink your teeth into...actually, it's a film music group (FSM Messageboard), but it's their Non-Film Music board -- one of the over-contributors is a graduate -- and now an employee -- of Wheaton College. A fine institution that, and it's almost frightening to think that he went there. I have ever so much fun in the small ways I devise, but he needs someone who'll bitch-slap him till his socks fly off.

Any takers? Let me know!

The bottom line on him -- if you don't agree wth him, you're a pinko commie leftist liberal who is a traitor to your country because only HE knows what it means to be an American. Thus, if you have any liberal leanins whatsoever, you're a traitor to your country.

Nuff said.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/07/2003 12:46 PM PST

RP: Thanks, but no, thanks. Quite enough far-right extremist hawks all over Usenet -- enough to last me a lifetime. And yes, that's always their line: if you make even the tiniest little criticism of the U.S. gov't, you are a traitor deserving of immediate death by firing squad. Thos. Jefferson and the boys must be spinning in their graves...

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 12:57 PM PST

Just playing Devil's Advocate, but there are just as many liberals online who are all-too-willing to jump on their own soapbox, and label as "racist", "intolerant" and "homophobic" anyone who might happen to disagree with them. Intolerance comes in all stripes.

Thankfully, we contribute to a group where it is permissible to have an opposing point of view (unless you disagree with the host...)

Posted by Dave @ 03/07/2003 01:25 PM PST

Ron - anxious to know what you think of CONTEMPT.

I agree the NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS cd is a lot of fun. Too bad they couldn't do the same for STATE FAIR. 8-(

Woody you can never be rich enough or thin enough or have too many DVD's!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 01:27 PM PST

I've been seduced by three --
count them 3 -- cds of songs
by sexy smooth sweet sultry
voiced Lainie Kazan, thanks to
dear reader Tom from Oz.....

Too bad she did not really get
to sing in My Big Fat Greek
Wedding..................................

Too bad indeed..........

Posted by François @ 03/07/2003 01:29 PM PST

Bruce,
I'm glad you asked the question "what's in your CD and DVD player". I have made an amazing discovery. You might have heard people say that 1939's Wizard of Oz played with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon seems to sync up (I haven't done it yet, but I hear you have to start Pink Floyd with the third lion's growl). Well, here it is- an internet premiere- I have found that the 1925 silent version of Wizard of Oz (I bought a cheap DVD copy over at Fry's here in the valley on Brentwood home video -Amazon carries it also- for like 6 bucks) syncs up with the CD of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John. I start them at the same time, and when the CD ends, I wait 13 seconds and restart the CD at track two, and the movie ends on cue with the "Gray Seal" fadeout. The songs sometimes magically describe what's going on in the scene, and sometimes add a subtext to the goings on, and except for a song or two at the end of the album and the beginning of the repeated tracks, a bunch of stuff lines up really well, especially the ending of the movie. The songs and scenes even change together several times. One note- the plot of the silent version of the movie is a bit confusing and completely different than the 39 version. I think it's more fun to not try and figure the plot out too much the first time. My favorite highlights are: the introduction of the evil characters- during "Funeral for a Friend", Dorthy's haunting introduction starting off with several shots of roses in front of "Goodbe Norma Jean" (get it? England's Rose?), I love that the tornado syncs up with the instrumental section in "The Ballad of Danny Bailey", and I could go on. Since I discovered this, I have tried doing this with other silent films and Cds in my collection, but nothing has come close to working anywhere near this well. And I would be interested in hearing feedback if anyone else tries this.

Posted by David Mauk @ 03/07/2003 01:30 PM PST

Yay! Francois is back! He doesn't hate us after all... :) :) :)

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 01:34 PM PST

As a Trading Spaces addict, has anyone seen this new book? I really hope they have this at Club Price. Because I think I need it!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0696217120/ref=cm_wl_ovu-pg.1-pos.3/002-2758580-0586459?v=glance&coliid=I15GNW8H22JNXH&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Also on amazon, did everybody know that they are coming out with a Chicago the movie book?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155704578X/ref=cm_wl_ovu-pg.1-pos.1/002-2758580-0586459?v=glance&coliid=I1QX90MSVS55M4&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER

I think I mentioned last weekend that I rented the dvd Les 8 Femmes (Eight Women). It was a french musical with Catherine Deneuve. But it wasn't really like a regular musical. Mostly each women just sang one at a time. It was a murder mystery, which played itself out in the home of the victim.

I'm not sure how much I liked it. But I did like the fact that I could understand it without reading the subtitles. That is always an interesting twist to a foreign language film!

Anyhow, here is my question of the day. Why doesn't Club Price sell shoes?

Jennifer

Posted by Jennifer @ 03/07/2003 01:34 PM PST

I'm not talking about Conservatives, Dave...or Liberals, in the normal, every day sense.

I'm talking extremist to the point of foaming at the mouth and then some...making vast leaps of illogic to paint the most innocuous of statements into a treatise of treachery and infamy. Oh! The Drama Queeniness of it all!

But he'd go into a coma if that were even "suggested."

: )

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/07/2003 01:45 PM PST

As someone who thoroughly loved the revival of KISS ME KATE with its original Broadway company, I have to say the TV version was a bit anticlimactic. However, in my case, I think I figured out that it's a show that just needs to be seen live to get its maximum impact. Michael Berresse was astonishing in person, but the same routine didn't deliver the goods on TV (not helped by Michael Blakemore cutting away for Lois reaction shots - dumb.)

At any rate, on to what's in my media players:

CD- KEAN with Alfred Drake. Lots of flop numbers, but "Sweet Danger" that Judy Garland recorded so beautifully is also fine here, but my favorite number was "Willow, Willow, Willow." Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

laserdisc - AFTER THE THIN MAN. I'm glad Warners issued the original THIN MAN on DVD, but it'll probably never get around to the others, so I'm holding on tight to my six disc laser set of the entire series.

DVD - HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. Just bought and installed a new widescreen HDTV set, and with a progressive scan DVD player, well, all my DVDs look ravishing. This literally pops off the screen, and we don't even have hi-def DVD yet!

Posted by Matt H. @ 03/07/2003 01:46 PM PST

Lulu: François is out there! He only access to a computer three or four days a week. His politics are well supported. Yes I know this is not the place but it certainly worries me that someone who is not democratically elected and appears to be at best pschotic in behavior is in charge of the world's biggest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
It is difficult to retreat into our fun trivia with our friends on some days.
My Cd player has been helping me escape with the joy of Shelby Flint. DVD player: "Topsy Turvy" ready to be played.
"Tales Of The City": It did not take me that long to adjust to a new Michael in the second series. I gather the first actor did not want to go down that road again. I enjoy the first three series and look forward to more. The books were such a delight.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/07/2003 01:50 PM PST

And look who returned as I took a tea break and typed in my post!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/07/2003 01:53 PM PST

Why, Dave, anyone can disagree with me anytime they so choose, oh, yes, anytime they so choose. Of course there are disagreements on this board, but they are done with respect for the other Hainies/Kimlets.

Posted by bk @ 03/07/2003 02:03 PM PST

Jrand - I think you may have Jean Arthur mixed up with Irene Dunne. Irene was in Theodora Goes Wild. I don't recall a film where Jean gets hit by a mink coat (haven't seen them all). The Talk of the Town I'm referring to was made in 1942. Cary escapes from jail and hides out in Jean's house. Ronald is a Supreme Court candidate who rents the house for the summer. Take a look again. It was nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture.

Posted by Donna @ 03/07/2003 02:10 PM PST

Suddenly the site is in

c i n e m a s c o p e

on my computer...LOL

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 02:12 PM PST

Oh of course....Irene was in THEODORA...you can imagine my embarrassment.

The mink coat movie is called EASY LIVING. Edward Arnold has an argument with his wife or mistress and throws her mink coat out his office window. It lands on Jean and of course everyone in her life starts looking at her differently because she is obviously wealthy or a kept woman....LOL....so funny.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 02:15 PM PST

Ron, I understand what you are saying about those rabid extremists out there. I was just concerned that your original post, combined with Lulu's response, might contribute to a stereotype of conservatives that is ill-deserved. As I said, intolerance and fanaticism come in all stripes.

And Bruce, I was just ribbing you about the recent "censorship" incident. Hope you took it in the spirit it was intended.

Posted by Dave @ 03/07/2003 02:15 PM PST

Tom from Oz: I wasn't so much concerned with politics as I was with the idea that Francois might have felt unwelcome or uncomfortable here. Since he just posted again, that's obviously not the case. :)

I may be the tiniest bit paranoid because lately the news media here has been reporting that American visitors in Europe have been made to feel unwelcome (being spat upon, having strangers call them "pigs," etc.). I'll never understand the willingness of some people to hold all individual citizens of a country responsible for the governmental administration in power at the time, in the nation they call home. (And yes, I'm aware that people from all over the world do this, including, unfortunately, many Americans.) To drag out a worn cliche: Can't we all just get along?

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 02:17 PM PST

...and as someone else who saw the KMK revival on Bway with the original cast, I agree that it did not hold up nearly as well on television. Of course, no show ever will compare to the live experience, but in several instances the performances were not up to the same calibre, either - especially the gangsters, who seem to have forgotten that they are in a comedy.

BTW, lovely photo of Brent Barrett on TheatreMania today, with Ms. Lauren Bacall, for those who are interested...

http://www.theatermania.com/news/feature/index.cfm?story=3199&cid=1

Posted by Dave @ 03/07/2003 02:18 PM PST

Re: Tales of the City, and other Maupin muchness...

From what I've read recently, the next three books in the Tales series (Babycakes, Significant Others, and Sure of You) are being considered for production as feature films, due to the construction of the stories. However, again from what I've read, Maupin is currently working on writing a screenplay based on his newest novel, THE NIGHT LISTENER, with his ex, Terry Anderson. Given the highly autobiographical nature of NL, this could prove to be very, very interesting.

Did I use the word "very" more than once?

Posted by S. Woody White @ 03/07/2003 02:33 PM PST

It was just reported that Actors' Equity will honor the musician's strike and not cross the picket lines tonight unless Local 802 and the League can come to an agreement by curtain time.

Posted by Jason @ 03/07/2003 02:35 PM PST

Now that this site is in
CinemaScope, all we need is
....StereophonIc Sound......and
Silk Stockings for some of
us.....because we have legs
and myrth!!

I get DIZZY just by looking at
the size of the posts!!!

Posted by François @ 03/07/2003 02:54 PM PST

It will be interesting to see how the drama unfolds. They've been down this road before and they've always settled at the last minute (as I recall something very similar happened during the last negotiation).

Dave: Yes, I took it as intended :-)

Posted by bk @ 03/07/2003 02:57 PM PST

Thanks Dave for the
theatermania link!

I haven't seen Ms Bacall in a
long time.... I don't think she 's
the one with the goatie??????

Please, DON'T hate me!!!

Posted by François @ 03/07/2003 02:59 PM PST

So, what happens if they don't settle by curtain tonight? Are the ticketholders just out of luck and their money?

As one who has many times traveled a great distance to see a show, I'd be more than a little ticked to be told: gee, sorry, you're out of luck.

Posted by Laura @ 03/07/2003 03:23 PM PST

Where is Allan?
Last heard of travelling to Cornwall. I do hope he was not abducted by the Pirates as he passed through Penzance.
"Ragtime" is about to commence at London's Picadilly theatre with most of the same leads as the Cardiff concert performance. Now all I need is a lottery win tonight.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/07/2003 03:25 PM PST

Wouldn't it really be a wonderful world if we could all just get along? Of course, for that to happen, we'd probably all have to give up our religions, nationalities, etc... and become boringly "same", ala "The Lathe Of Heaven" (one of my all time favorite books/movies). Instead of getting along blindly, I propose we all get to know each other better and respect our differences and embrace our similarities.

Well, now that the preaching portion of my post is over, on with the question of the day.

Since Bill (WEL) and I are joined at the hip (sorta like Daisy & Violet - just kidding), My answer would be pretty much the same as his, EXCEPT...
What I currently have been listening to on my portable CD player on the subway to and from work - the first 4 Yes albums (Yes(self titled debut album), Time And A Word, The Yes Album, and Fragile) all recently digitally remastered and reissued with lots of great bonus tracks by Rhino. The sound quality is great, and the bonus material makes it well worth purchasing these albums even if, like me, you already own a complete collection of Yes albums on CD.

Posted by Ray @ 03/07/2003 03:33 PM PST

Watching this weekend Star Trek IV special edition and starting Queer as Folk 2n season. Trying to find a copy of Sweet Charity which will be a priority.

Nick Redman wrote me to tell me of an additional cd that Bruce had produced for Bay Cities called Classic Broadway. It has been added to the site. I think but not sure but the Guest Book might be up and running.

if you have any comments, additions, corrections please write

Posted by Michael @ 03/07/2003 04:00 PM PST

Miss Bacall NEVER sported a goatee.

A vandyke, yes.

Posted by Lulu @ 03/07/2003 04:31 PM PST

In my CD player at work: "Parade," first was Jason Robert Brown's then Jerry Herman's. Just because.

In my CD player at home: nothing

In my DVD player: "Star Trek IV" also. I just got it yesterday at Costco. I also have the 2-disc Star Treks 1 and 2, but I've missed 3. Not for long! Read on:

I finally got my income tax refund and can now get my car serviced (9000 miles late), buy a few CDs & DVDs (ST3), make a little donation to a very worthy project, get some new shoes, etc... I hope I don't spend it all at one place (whatever's left after my car service)!

Jrand (or anyone who wants to know), I've found that long links (see above) stretch the browser window to Cinemascope in Netscape (my preferred browser--I have N4, I don't know about N6 or N7), but when I use Internet Explorer, it wraps the text to fit the window size so that reading the posts here aren't a problem.

Posted by George @ 03/07/2003 04:33 PM PST

Steve Allen. His TV shows did not make it to this side of the world. I do have a circa 1957 45rpm Coral label recording of "Gotta Have Something In The Bank Frank"/"The Disc-Jockey's Theme Song". I guess this is the same Steve Allen.
Ray: Thanks for the "Yes" post. Sometimes I think I'm the only one that listens to "pop" music at HHW.If you are indeed joined at the hip "love will find a way". I don't really think that you are "the owner of a lonely heart".
Bill: Has "Andy Capp" arrived yet.
Whenever I post anything overseas I now have to fill in a form, have the information and form number keyed into the post office computer and then present my driving licence as proof of my identity. The people at my local post office know me well and no doubt know my licence number off by heart. Nearly all incoming mail (CDs of course)has been checked and opened by Australian customs officers. This world is insane.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/07/2003 05:18 PM PST

In the car cd player: Closer Than Ever
In the vcr: Red Dwarf -- the episode with Elvis and featuring Adolph Hitler, as himself.

Posted by Laura @ 03/07/2003 05:20 PM PST

No Broadway shows this weekend... check it out.

http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=25679&CT=38

Posted by Matthew @ 03/07/2003 05:53 PM PST

There's something very unsettling about the idea of Lauren Bacall and Dick Van Dyke together.

Not as unsettling as Bacall and Jerry Van Dyke, of course, but still unsettling.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 03/07/2003 06:04 PM PST

Yep! Next think you know it'll be Van Dyke and Streisand!

Then we'll really know s-c-a-r-y!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/07/2003 06:08 PM PST

Yes

Posted by . @ 03/07/2003 06:13 PM PST

Well, folks, it's another exciting Friday night. We are taking Red Dwarf (featuring Adolf Hitler, as himself) out of the VCR. We just got back from the video store, and here's what we have: The Jerk, Brigadoon, a musical comedy version of The Three Musketeers, and Strangers on a Train. Oh yeah, and The Maltese Falcon (for the symbolism and all that.)

I wanted to get Revenge of the Nerds because my math teacher from high school was in it.

Posted by Sandra @ 03/07/2003 06:49 PM PST

I'll get my revenge one day, i'll get my
revenge!

Posted by Sandra's math teacher @ 03/07/2003 07:12 PM PST

Hey, Mambo Sinuendo and Michael Buble STILL haven't left my cd player, but they've been joined but The London Cast Recording of THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Francis Langford on the Bonus Tracks - yum!) and Jason Graae, Judys Kaye and Blazer in BABES IN ARMS thanks to a marvelous Frenchman I know. . .he's a very dear reader, and a very gentil person to know.
DVD PLAYER: ANGEL: SEASON ONE, X MEN 1.5, THE ROAD TO PERDITION, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT and METROPOLIS.
VCR: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, just because I was in the mood, and the dvd has been delayed until JUNE!!!

Posted by td @ 03/07/2003 08:18 PM PST

Watched SWEET CHARITY earlier this week, and the DVD transfer is excellent, much much more satisfying than that hybrid laserdisc that letterboxed only some numbers (but still chopped off the sides in the letterboxed image). A couple of publicity featurettes from the time of release (one featuring Miss Edit Head) are fun, too.

Posted by Matt H. @ 03/07/2003 08:31 PM PST

Got the copy of Sweet Charity.
A little disappointing with the chapter stops. It would have been nice if the musical numbers would have been totally isolate unto themselves in their owm chapters, but they do start the beginning of each on though.

I kinda liked the alternate ending but of course the "downbeat" ending was truer to the show.

I also foud it interesting that they swithed the moments where I'm a Brass Band and Where Am I Going are in the original stage version. I think I like the film placement better.

Look for Michael Bennett couldn't find him.

But Ben Vereen was very visable and had moments to shine. Unless you knew what Lee Roy Reems looked like you'd miss him as well. But he and Vereen framed Sammy Davis very well in the Rhythmn of life number.

It was interesting to see Bob Fosse without his tradmark goatee.

But what I really find interesting is that people complained about the frenetic cutting in Chicago. Fossee did it in Sweet Charity and he did it in Cabaret especially with the Mein Heir number.

Anyone know why the new numbers for Charity were not eligable for oscar consider that year?

There's Got to Be Something Better than This still reminded me of America in the film version of West Side Story.

Posted by Michael @ 03/07/2003 08:44 PM PST

Thanks, George. Yes in Explorer everything old is new again!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/07/2003 09:06 PM PST

CD's:

"Bed, Boys and Beyond" (OCR)

A copy of the Lincoln Center production of "Annie Get Your Gun" which I just burned. (I just learned how!)

James Naughton's new CD (the jury is still out on this one)

"You'd Better Go Now" - Jeri Southern

"Brazil" Rosemary Clooney and John Pizzarelli

No DVD's currently

Posted by Kerry @ 03/07/2003 09:11 PM PST

Good evening/early morning!

Only 260 people today. But I still ended up playing from 9:30am-6:30pm, then some callbacks from 9:30pm-11:30pm. Some good people. Some bad people. And some scary people!! *I will never hear "Sweet Georgia Brown" in the same way again... I'll share later if anyone wishes an explanation of that statement.

So, the strike in New York, and the virtual shutdown of Broadway. WOW!! As I mentioned before, both sides initially came out presenting the extremes, and just don't want to back down for fear of being "weak".

Well, I'm exhausted and I have one more day of auditions - another 260 tomorrow I think... WHEW!

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 03/07/2003 10:23 PM PST

Oh, I forgot about today's topic... And I can answer it this week!

VCR: Tapes of Sunday's "Six Feet Under", "Queer As Folk", and "Penn & Teller's Bullshit"

DVD: Waiting for Guffman

CD: Hair movie soundtrack, and Brent Barrett's AJL album - just shared the joy of it with a young singer here at the convention.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 03/07/2003 10:26 PM PST

Broadway:
Bell Out of Order!
Please Knock!

Oh dear, oh dear.

David M. - what a great idea, matching CD's to DVD's. I am off on an exploring journey of my own to find the perfect CD for ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN.

Jose - Sweet Georgia Brown story please.

td....a lot of us are nice gentile people to know.

Watching Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson and Orson Welles in THE STRANGER...what a terrific movie. And a young young Richard Long several years away from being a Barkley!

Did anyone else ever make up your own lyrics to TV show themes?

The Big Valley....the BIG Valley...alalalalalalala

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/08/2003 03:54 AM PST

Harvey Fierstein walks the picket line....click on my name for a photo!

Posted by New York New York @ 03/08/2003 03:58 AM PST

Jrand:

I had the same lyrics to The Big Valley.

Unfortunately now the theme is going through my head.

I'm starting to have visions of Miss Barbara Stanwyck.
"Show us some of what you learned from your father. Show us some of Tom Barkleys' GUTS!"

Posted by Kerry @ 03/08/2003 06:16 AM PST

It would be difficult for anybody to make up lyrics for a certain smash hit '50s and '60s program that would be more ridiculous than the official lyrics:

Hoss and Joe and Adam know every rock and pine,
No one works or fights or eats, like those boys of mine.
Here we stand in the middle of a grand Bonanza.
With a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope,
we planted our family tree.

The lyrics for the pilot episode were even sillier:

(Little Joe solo) I've got a flair for women everywhere---Bonanza!
(Hoss solo) Bonanza! (Barks and howls)
(All three) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza! Bonanza!
But when I give a kiss to any little miss, She'll learn a lot from me

(Ben solo) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza!
(All three) Bonanza!
When I give a kiss to any little miss
She'll learn a lot from me
Hair of brown, hair of gold
I'll take what I see

We're not a one to saddle up and run--Bonanza! Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
Knows he can count on me
One for four, four for all
This we guarantee

We got a right to pick a little fight--Bonanza! Bonanza!
If anyone fights any one of us
He's gotta fight with me!

Bonanza!

Bonanza!

Posted by Lulu @ 03/08/2003 06:55 AM PST

Isn't that a Livingston and Evans song, Lulu?

Wow, Kerry, I can hear Victoria saying that RIGHT NOW!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/08/2003 07:07 AM PST

I believe both "My Personal Property" and "It's a Nice Face" were eligible for Oscar consideration. They simply weren't nominated. I believe the rules at that time only allowed one song per movie to be nominated, and I'm not sure which one Cy Coleman pitched as the potential nominee. The songs chosen that year for nomination were "Come Saturday Morning," "Jean," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "True Grit," and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"

Posted by Matt H. @ 03/08/2003 07:08 AM PST

On my way to see Sebastian POISON Bach and Carl Anderson in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Pray for Rosemary's Baby.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/08/2003 08:13 AM PST

Tom---
No Andy Capp yet. I'll let you know when I get it.

Thanks.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/08/2003 08:31 AM PST